I'm quite unsure if my gauge is reading correctly!

[o o o m i k e e]

My car is pretty much bone stock, most of my investment went into replacing interior and making it clean inside.

Was testing out the new SSQV I installed, was looking at the gauge for my turbo (The one with the cute turbo fan icon!). I thought at full boost it would go up to the +8 mark, but it just barely makes it to that. I'm reading this around 4k-5kRPM.

Is this normal? I don't think the boost would go higher if I ran my RPM's higher. I'll include a picture of the gauge, and make a red line at where it stops. I hope this is normal, or do I have a boost leak, maybe something else?

I checked all the piping and I'm pretty sure there isn't any leaks.

Here's the picture in the attachment: The RED LINE is where the needle stops at full boost (Or to my knowledge is full boost).

 

[DBN]

That is stock boost pressure. 6.8 PSI if its manual.

 

[bloodasp90]

boost stock is only (if i remember right) is like 6.2 or something like that, so yes, thats pritty much right where its at, or when mine was when i was running stock boost thats where it normaly sat.

 

[o o o m i k e e]

Ah perfect, I was a bit worried I wasn't doing something right. Just getting into the practice of modifying stock.

I can honestly say that, every time I change something. This little voice in the back of my head gets paranoid and tells me "Your engine is going to break!". So I get frantic and check everything and if something feels funny or is slightly off, then I go wacko.

I'm thankful for the help here, you guys really are great.

 

[DBN]

No problem... I get the same way whenever i touch my car also lol.